Boston Red Sox timeline
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Baltimore Orioles defeat Boston Red Sox, 3-2
BALTIMORE -- It came to this: After traveling 41,442 miles, facing 25,592 pitches, and enduring more ups and downs than their Delta charter, the... Read more
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Boston Red Sox defeat Los Angeles Angels, 9-3
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- The blueprint was followed down to almost every nuance, every wrinkle, every desired contour. Think about it. In your perfect... Read more
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Boston Red Sox defeat Los Angeles Angels, 8-3
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- The temptation is overwhelming. Go ahead, admit it. You're fighting it as you read this. You are thinking this series is... Read more
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Boston Red Sox defeat Los Angeles Angels, 8-6
Poor David Ortiz. All he had to protect him were his silly little goggles as his teammates ambushed him in the postgame frenzy. A bottle of Great... Read more
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New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 10-7
NEW YORK -- Of course he would be here. Yankees closer Mariano Rivera understands duty and obligation. He has been the most dominant closer in... Read more
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New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 3-1
NEW YORK -- He brought this on himself; the mocking, the demeaning (albeit clever) signs, the pressure of finding himself enclosed in a ballpark... Read more
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New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 19-8
With regard to the ongoing saga of the Boston Red Sox and their futile pursuit of one lousy little World Series triumph, I have always been of the... Read more
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Boston Red Sox defeat New York Yankees, 6-4
Carlton Fisk in 1975. David Ortiz in 2004. Twelfth inning both times. Hold on to those tickets for this afternoon's fifth game of the 2004... Read more
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Boston Red Sox defeat New York Yankees, 5-4
New England is at once sleepless, breathless, and full of hope. David Ortiz and the Red Sox just beat the Yankees in two extra-inning playoff games... Read more
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Boston Red Sox defeat New York Yankees, 4-2
NEW YORK -- Whaddya think? Let him close tonight? He threw only 99 pitches and he was still pumping high-octane gas at the end. Curt Schilling... Read more
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Boston Red Sox defeat New York Yankees, 10-3
NEW YORK -- Every once in a while an Oscar winner gets up there and wings an acceptance speech because "I never thought I'd win, so I didn't... Read more
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Boston Red Sox defeat St. Louis Cardinals, 11-9
What is it about Red Sox players hitting the foul pole late at night to win World Series games? At 11:56 last night, Sox second baseman Mark... Read more
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2004 World Series
Finally! Red Sox win World Series By Mike Dodd, USA TODAY ST. LOUIS — The Boston Red Sox, the symbol of heartbreak and human foible to sports... Read more
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Boston Red Sox defeat St. Louis Cardinals, 6-2
It might have been the last Fenway Park game of the magical 2004 season. And if it was, there'll be a parade in Boston sometime before Election Day... Read more
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Boston Red Sox defeat St. Louis Cardinals, 4-1
ST. LOUIS -- It looks as if the planets really are aligned for the Red Sox this time. A lunar eclipse is due to start less than an hour before the... Read more
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Boston Red Sox defeat St. Louis Cardinals, 3-0
ST. LOUIS -- They did it for the old folks in Presque Isle, Maine, and White River Junction, Vt. They did it for the baby boomers in North Conway,... Read more
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Stephen King publishes Faithful
Faithful is a book co-written by Stephen King and Stewart O'Nan. It chronicles exchanges between King and O'Nan about the Red Sox's upcoming 2004... Read more
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New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 9-2
NEW YORK -- This felt like October, a chilling 43 degrees at gametime, bunting lining the facing of the second and third decks at Yankee Stadium,... Read more
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New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 4-3
NEW YORK -- The "C" stitched on Jason Varitek's uniform and absent but implied on Derek Jeter's stands for captain. Yet in a matinee in the... Read more
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Boston Red Sox defeat New York Yankees, 7-3
NEW YORK -- It felt manufactured, made for TV, an exploitation of baseball's best feud, the idea of the Red Sox beginning the 2005 season in Yankee... Read more
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Boston Red Sox defeat Toronto Blue Jays, 6-5
TORONTO -- Having witnessed moments last October when he was so resilient, so clutch, so unfailingly self-confident, it's somewhat odd to realize... Read more
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Toronto Blue Jays defeat Boston Red Sox, 12-5
TORONTO -- Pitchers in their 40s might be in vogue around major league baseball, but they're not the easiest guys to manage. Well, they are if... Read more
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Toronto Blue Jays defeat Boston Red Sox, 4-3
TORONTO -- They've played in St. Louis, Fort Myers, Fla.; Sarasota, Fla.; Jupiter, Fla.; Dunedin, Fla.; Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; St. Petersburg,... Read more
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Boston Red Sox defeat New York Yankees, 8-1
ACTON -- At 2 p.m. yesterday, classes ceased for a group of anxious fifth- and sixth-graders, and a television was turned on. It was the moment... Read more
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New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 5-2
The mock cheers that have greeted Mariano Rivera this week every time he has shown his face in Fenway Park come as no surprise to Worcester's... Read more